NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G84 G96C
GPU variant G84-303-A2 NB9P-GE2
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 289 million 314 million
Die size 169 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 17th, 2007
Generation GeForce 8
Production End-of-life
Launch price 159 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 183 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 540 MHz 430 MHz
Shader clock 1190 MHz 1075 MHz
Memory clock 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 22.40 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 32 32
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 8 8
SM count 4 4
Cache L2 32 KB 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 4.320 GPixel/s 3.440 GPixel/s
Texture rate 8.640 GTexel/s 6.880 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 76.16 GFLOPS 68.80 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
Length 170 mm 6.7 inches
TDP 47 W 20 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors None
Board number P402, P403

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 3rd, 2008
Generation GeForce 9M (9600M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-II
Predecessor GeForce 8M
Successor GeForce 100M

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